DIFFERENT STYLES OF PLANTING 



329 



should be so placed, by alternating taller and shorter ones, 

 that their sky-line may be broken and irregular. 



It is best in most cases to plant the shrubs in clusters 

 or groups. Care must be taken, however, not to mass the 

 clusters so much as to prevent normal growth later on. It 

 is well, too, to mass shrubs in the angles of intersecting 

 paths or beside the entrance to a building, or in the 



ITALIAN STYLE OF PLANTING. 



curve of a widening pathway, or in some quiet nook 

 which can in this way be made especially attractive and 

 restful. 



Without overdoing the matter, there should yet be 

 worked into the decorative scheme a few dainty herbs. 

 The number and variety of appropriate herbs both wild 

 and cultivated is sufficient to meet the most exacting 

 tastes. Shrubbery and trees should form the natural 

 background of the herbs, so that, starting with the green- 

 sward in front, the eye may pass easily up over the low 



